CREDITON independent bookshop, The Bookery, will welcome the international No. 1 Bestselling author, Kate Mosse, on Friday, July 7.

Kate will be in conversation with Anne Oxborough at Crediton Methodist Church about her new historical novel, "The Ghost Ship".

It is an epic love story of concealed identity, piracy and revenge.

Kate Mosse is an award-winning novelist, playwright, essayist and non-fiction writer.

Her 10 novels and short-story collections, include The Joubert Family Chronicles ("The Burning Chambers", "The City of Tears" and now "The Ghost Ship") – as well as the multi-million selling Languedoc Trilogy ("Labyrinth", "Sepulchre" and "Citadel"), and number one bestselling Gothic fiction "The Winter Ghosts" and "The Taxidermist’s Daughter". 

Her highly acclaimed non-fiction includes "An Extra Pair of Hands" and "Warrior Queens" and "Quiet Revolutionaries": "How Women (Also) Built the World".

The latter was the basis for her recent, highly-acclaimed one-woman theatre show and features the real-life historical characters who inspired "The Ghost Ship".

The Founder Director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction and Non-Fiction, Kate is also the Founder of the global #WomanInHistory campaign. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she is a Visiting Professor of Contemporary Fiction and Creative Writing at the University of Chichester and President of the Festival of Chichester. 

Kate Mosse in Conversation will begin at 7.30pm. Admission is £6 (redeemable against a copy of the book).

To book, call into the shop at 21 High Street, Crediton, EX17 3AH, telephone 01363 774740 or book online at: The Bookery  (https://thebookery.org.uk/event/kate-mosse-the-ghost-ship/ ).